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Rating:  - Confusing Message
This was a very moving movie and I couldn't turn away. However, the political message was bizzare. Sydney rails against the USA for its efforts in Cambodia and the bombings. But the USA was trying to stop the Communist KR from taking power. The ensuing horrific blood-bath is the consequences of the Communist KR taking power. So naturally the outrage should be focused on the Communists. If anything, the USA could be criticized for withdrawing and NOT bombing the Communists more extensively. Then the movie ends with John Lennon's love-letter to communism, "Imagine" Very confusing political message indeed.
Rating:  - DVD Jacket for The Killing Fields
While the DVD itself is an excellent film - the DVD Jacket is of extremely poor quality - not what I expected at all.
It looks like a photocopy using very thin paper - not what one would purchase new from a store.
A real disappointment
Rating: - Did little to show the real scope of the horrors.
The film did not do nearly enough to show the real extents of the horrors of the Khmer Rouge holocaust of 3 million Cambodians that took place from 1975 to 1979, and obviously revelled in trendy lefty journalist Sydney Schanberg's blame of the USA for the Khmer Rouge genocide.
In his speech winning the 1976 prestigious journalist award Schanberg does not condemn Khmer Rouge atrocities but instead launches into a tirade against US policy in Southeast Asia.
Before the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975 and killed approximately 2 million people, Schanberg wrote positively in The New York Times about the coming regime change, writing about the Cambodians that "it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone." A dispatch he wrote on April 13, 1975, written from Phnom Penh, ran with the headline "Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life."
Did Schanberg ever apologize for such comments after the scope of the Khmer Rouge atrocities became known?
Did he shed his trendy lefty ideology that could justify or obsfucate such horrors?
I know that Noam Chomsky supported the Khmer Rouge terror (as he now supports such genocidal terror gangs as Hamas and Hezbollah) and never retracted or apologized.
The film showed only a tiny glimpse of Khmer Rouge atrocities. They did show something of the pain of Cambodia's children at the time. Touching scenes showing Cambodia's beautiful children. But not clearly enough did it reveal the maiming and murder of these children by the Khmer Rouge.
The one scene that did begin to show what the real face of Communism is about is the scene where Dith Pran, after having escaped from the Khmer Rouge concentration camp, comes across the field of human skeletons murdered by the Khmer Rouge.
Rating:  - Blood, Sweat, and Journalism
The award-winning film The Killing Fields drips with emotion, anger, and blood, throwing the cold, hard truth of the corrupt Cambodian regime in audience member's faces. While the message of this movie is worth 141 minutes of anybody's time, the film is not for one who can't handle sitting there when it is over and contemplating how brutal war truly is.
While countless movies have been filmed about brutalities such as the Jewish holocaust, The Killing Fields reveals a different atrocity: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970's. The story also zooms in on several intriguing characters that bring these hard times to life. Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran's friendship and commitment to telling the truth through journalism is very inspiring.
Realistic, long, and disturbing, The Killing Fields shows its audience horrific bombings, dying children, missing limbs, and executions. It is not for the faint of heart or squeamish. Pop in this film and you are not in for a light movie experience.
Although The Killing Fields may be difficult to watch, it is admirable that it does not hold back from showing Cambodia as it truly was in 1975. Just as Schanberg desires to bring the true story of Cambodia back to the New York Times, so this movie brings the true story to its audience.
Rating:  - Very Very Very Pathetic Delivery System
I have ordered 2 DVDs on August 9, 2007 and today is September 11th 2007 but yet I have no clue about my DVDs. This is pathetic and very shameful thing for a name like AMAZON. I ask everyone not to buy anything before they commit you fast delivery.
I HAVE NOT RECEIVED MY DVDs YET.
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